IM Enterprise Architect Infrastructure

The IM Enterprise Architect – Infrastructure is responsible for defining and governing the enterprise technology infrastructure architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives, operational needs, and industry best practices. The role focuses on enterprise-wide infrastructure strategies, cloud, networking, service management and automation to achieve targeted business

outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks and improving sustainability. The incumbent ensures that infrastructure strategies are scalable, secure, cost-efficient and optimized to support business operations in the mining industry.

Safety

Create a safety culture through productive and authorized operational systems/processes that allow all employees (including contracting partners) to provide their outputs in a risk-controlled environment. Oversee consistent application of Safety & Health principles in all discipline interactions and take personal responsibility for safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities.

• Performance and Delivery

Infrastructure Strategy & Roadmap

Develop and maintain the infrastructure architecture framework and cloud strategy ensuring alignment with business priorities, future scalability and ensuring compliance with industry regulations.

Builds the EA value proposition

Positioning the EA practice as an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy.

Develops and applies minimal viable architectures

Includes a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles and guardrails, through the EA governance model

Technology Selection & Standardization

Evaluate and recommend infrastructure solutions that enhance efficiency and innovation.

Cloud & On-Premise Strategies

Define and implement strategies for cloud migrations, hybrid environments, and SaaS adoption.

Cost optimisation

Analyze infrastructure costs and identify areas for cost reduction

Security & Compliance

Ensure infrastructure solutions comply with cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

Collaboration with IT & Business Leaders

Work closely with business units, CIO, IM Portfolio & Architecture team, and IT security teams to drive infrastructure modernization efforts.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Management

Support digital transformation initiatives by communicating architectural best practices and ensuring business adoption of new technologies.

Technical Guidance

Collaborates with infrastructure delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.

• Ensure alignment with emerging technologies and possible recommendation of new technologies.
• People & Teams
• Implement a purpose-driven, high-performing culture that is aligned with the company values, is inclusive and promotes diversity, supports engagement and fosters continuous improvement to work processes.
• Compliance

Ensure compliance with internal and external regulatory, legislative and permitting requirements.

Key internal relationships

• Head of IM
• Enterprise & Business Applications Teams
• Business Unit Leaders (Finance, Operations, P&O, Supply Chain)
• IT Infrastructure & Security Teams
• Data Governance, Business Intelligence, and Analytics Teams
• Governance & Compliance teams
• Digital Transformation & Innovation Teams

Key external relationships

• Enterprise & Business Application Vendors
• Cloud & Data Platform Providers
• Industry Regulators & Compliance Bodies
• System Integration & Consulting Partners

Mental processing ability

This work requires the ability to draw on data in order to make a diagnosis. Then decide between

alternative methods to address individual case(s). Recommend improvements to processes/ systems.

Prescribed

Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or

equivalent experience.

Desriable

Master’s degree in business, computer science, engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.

Certifications

Prescribed

Enterprise Architecture Frameworks

Valid EB/Code 08 driver’s licence

Desirable

Cloud-related Architecture certifications, ITSM, IT Governance &

Security Certification

Technical Knowledge

Experience

5-7 Years of experience in

• Infrastructure Architecture, Cloud Architecture, or Digital Transformation.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in cloud migrations.
• Proven experience in infrastructure rationalization, modernization, and automation in a large enterprise.
• Hands-on experience managing technology vendors, contracts, and system

integrators.

• Experience working with regulatory and compliance requirements for data security and privacy, business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Mining industry experience preferred, with a strong understanding of operational and business applications.

Technical knowledge required for role

• Deep understanding of data governance, data privacy, and security best practices.
• Expertise in cloud computing, virtualisation and hybrid application architectures.
• Strong background in API management, middleware platforms, and system integrations.
• Experience in enterprise-wide infrastructure modernization and automation
• Knowledge of data lakes, data warehouses, and real-time analytics frameworks.
• Proficiency in DevOps methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices architecture.

Technical Skills

• Expert skill in enterprise-wide data governance, cybersecurity best practices, and digital transformation strategy.
• Expert skill in enterprise applications integration, cloud migration, and microservices architecture.
• Advanced skill in data governance, database management, and data warehousing.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud services
• Developing skill in AI-driven data analytics and machine learning applications

Social processing skills

Self-awareness, and of behaviours that successfully drive or hinder team performance and collaboration

Application

Demonstrate drive, determination, persistence, and commitment to apply other elements of capability work

Other requirements

Medical certificate of fitness

There could be ad hoc requirements from time to time including need to travel

Platinum takes a stand against gender-based

‘’We are unconditional in creating a respectful, inclusive and safe working environment to ensure that no colleague will be violated or harassed under our watch’’